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Peter Taaffe
13 February 2012
Video of Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, reporting on discussions at the International Executive Committee of the Committee for a Workers' International, to a national meeting of Socialist Party youth
11 January 2012
Socialist Party 2011 fighting fund target smashed!
Help support the fightback in 2012: Socialist Party members raised a magnificent £33,322 fighting fund in the last three months of 2011, surpassing the target of £25,000 for the quarter and reaching 133%, writes Ken Douglas Socialist Party national treasurer.
1500 marched on the Fawcett Society demonstration 19 November to tell the government "Don't turn back time" on women's rights, dressed in 1950s clothes, photo Sarah Wrack
4 January 2012
National meeting for women in the Socialist Party
National meeting for women in the Socialist Party, Sunday 8 January, 10am - 3.30pm
Morning: Women and the Cuts - how the crisis is affecting women
Afternoon: The Socialist Party and the Women's Movement
Inside Job: film on the global economic crisis of 2008
14 December 2011
Inside Job: Capitalism is a failed system: support the socialist fightback
"The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy," wrote revolutionary leader Lenin in 1916 in Imperialism - the Highest Stage of Capitalism, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
14 December 2011
Why I joined the Socialist Party
I first became politically aware in 1968 at the age of 14. I had been injured playing rugby and my father gave me Alexander Cordell's Rape of the Fair Country to read to pass away the time. This injury,...
2 November 2011
Read the Socialist - the paper that fights all the cuts
The Socialist is a weekly paper that opposes all cuts to jobs and services. Why should we suffer cuts to pay the bankers' deficit, while those very same bankers - many of whom financially back the Tories, continue to enjoy a life of luxury?
26 October 2011
Join the fightback - come to Socialism 2011
A weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party: Whether you have been a socialist for many years or are new to socialist ideas, Socialism 2011 has something for you, writes Steve Glennon, Socialism 2011 organiser.
16 September 2011
Kazakhstan socialists under threat of imminent arrest
Two leading socialists in Kazakhstan, CWI members Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev, as well as other leaders of the Socialist Movement Kazakhstan (formerly 'Kazakhstan 2012'), face the threat of imminent arrest and imprisonment
20 July 2011
Get rid of Cameron, Murdoch and all they represent
What we say: When long-rotten fruit finally falls, all manner of grossness oozes from it and all varieties of parasites can come crawling out...
20 July 2011
News International heads' grovelling adverts apologising for "the wrongdoing that occurred" will have done little to redeem them in the eyes of people outraged by recent revelations about phone hacking, writes Sarah Wrack, the Socialist sales organiser.
6 July 2011
30 June pension strike reports
The 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions was a historic event
6 July 2011
Building the socialist alternative on 30 June
The 30 June strike was a huge success for the workers striking to defend their pensions and for everyone opposed to the Con-Dem cuts, writes Sean Figg.
15 June 2011
Tories make token changes - save the NHS
Editorial of the Socialist: As the Socialist goes to press ministers have accepted the 'changes' to the proposed NHS reform. These recommendations, in reality mere tokens, from the Future Forum Report, follow a ten-week consultation
Wages fall
8 June 2011
Economic crisis in 'them and us' Britain
Editorial of the Socialist: For a few at the top, Britain is still booming. In 2010, while the majority suffered the biggest squeeze on their incomes since 1977, the earnings of FTSE 100 chief executives rose by 32%...
25 May 2011
Showing an alternative to cuts in Dorset
Socialist Party members sold 25 copies of the Socialist and raised over £35 fighting fund on 21 May at our first stall in Poole, Dorset, for many years, writes Sean Clothier.
26 March demo, photo Senan
20 April 2011
How can the Con-Dem coalition be most effectively punished?
Editorial of the Socialist: In two weeks' time voters will have an opportunity to demonstrate their views on the Con-Dem government at the ballot box. After a year of economic stagnation, growing poverty, and vicious cuts; no one is in any doubt what the result will be.
5 April 2011
Austria: Success In Defending Women's Right To Abortion
AN IMPORTANT case in defending women's right to abortion was won on 10 July at the end of a lower court trial, writes Claudia Sorger, Socialist Left Party, Austria.
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